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AGAIN AND AGAIN! When will we get what the public want and need a bus station, It is a miracle that no one has been killed or maimed in Darlington with all these buses double parking blocking roads and the devil may care attitude of the companies.

AGAIN AND AGAIN! When will we get what the public want and need a bus station, It is a miracle that no one has been killed or maimed in Darlington with all these buses double parking blocking roads and the devil may care attitude of the companies.oliviaden6

The ideal opportunity to build a bus station would be where the new multi storey car park is going to be built for this alleged new cinema etc.

The bus station could be on the ground floor with 2 or 3 levels above for cars. It would be ideal for people coming into town by bus for both the new leisure development and shopping. Would then free up the town centre of these busses and the pollution they cause. Think though this is too good an idea for this useless Council and the idiots who make these decisions.

The ideal opportunity to build a bus station would be where the new multi storey car park is going to be built for this alleged new cinema etc.
The bus station could be on the ground floor with 2 or 3 levels above for cars. It would be ideal for people coming into town by bus for both the new leisure development and shopping. Would then free up the town centre of these busses and the pollution they cause. Think though this is too good an idea for this useless Council and the idiots who make these decisions.Quaker Boy

On the subject of Public Transport need for a town the size of Darlington,
too many buses at each stop as we know, and passengers standing very close to the kerb and traffic cannot be satisfactory. Thankfully no-one was hurt in this incident. ALSO provision for private coaches opposite the town hall (side of the Dolphin Centre) is nothing to be proud of. No information or clock. Filthy pavement and tatty surroundings, lights broken and no litter bins. However, are shiny ads for the Council-run cafe inside the Dolphin Centre where timetables should be ! Not a great introduction for anyone alighting in the town and needing directions to find a taxi or a bus stop. I do believe there is no place to book a coach
journey anyway, as we have no transport info office any more.
Plan a Transport Interchange before cinema etc ? Surely ?

On the subject of Public Transport need for a town the size of Darlington,
too many buses at each stop as we know, and passengers standing very close to the kerb and traffic cannot be satisfactory. Thankfully no-one was hurt in this incident. ALSO provision for private coaches opposite the town hall (side of the Dolphin Centre) is nothing to be proud of. No information or clock. Filthy pavement and tatty surroundings, lights broken and no litter bins. However, are shiny ads for the Council-run cafe inside the Dolphin Centre where timetables should be ! Not a great introduction for anyone alighting in the town and needing directions to find a taxi or a bus stop. I do believe there is no place to book a coach
journey anyway, as we have no transport info office any more.
Plan a Transport Interchange before cinema etc ? Surely ?Awake-in-Darlo

Nothing to do with the need for a bus station, this is just another example of poor driving by staff employed by Arrivia, its not the first accident involving their drivers and it won't be the last, the questions regarding a bus station irrelevant, its the quality and abilities of the drivers that should be examined in this case.

Nothing to do with the need for a bus station, this is just another example of poor driving by staff employed by Arrivia, its not the first accident involving their drivers and it won't be the last, the questions regarding a bus station irrelevant, its the quality and abilities of the drivers that should be examined in this case.Cypress

Cypress wrote:
Nothing to do with the need for a bus station, this is just another example of poor driving by staff employed by Arrivia, its not the first accident involving their drivers and it won't be the last, the questions regarding a bus station irrelevant, its the quality and abilities of the drivers that should be examined in this case.

Some of the drivers need some education.
#5A driver this afternoon decided to sit in the yellow box outside the Odeon at Darlington, whilst stuck at a red light.
#11 driver this afternoon drove round the corner onto Tubwell Row and pipped his horn at a pedestrian that was already in the road before the bus got to the bend.

[quote][p][bold]Cypress[/bold] wrote:
Nothing to do with the need for a bus station, this is just another example of poor driving by staff employed by Arrivia, its not the first accident involving their drivers and it won't be the last, the questions regarding a bus station irrelevant, its the quality and abilities of the drivers that should be examined in this case.[/p][/quote]Some of the drivers need some education.
#5A driver this afternoon decided to sit in the yellow box outside the Odeon at Darlington, whilst stuck at a red light.
#11 driver this afternoon drove round the corner onto Tubwell Row and pipped his horn at a pedestrian that was already in the road before the bus got to the bend.DL5opinion

Really I would not blame the drivers they have a lot on their plate, the only real answer is a bus station as most of the towns in the North East have.
Darlington is totally lacking in this facility and it's about time that both Darlington Council and Arriva accepted this situation and acted.
Awake-in Darlo above sums it all up.

Really I would not blame the drivers they have a lot on their plate, the only real answer is a bus station as most of the towns in the North East have.
Darlington is totally lacking in this facility and it's about time that both Darlington Council and Arriva accepted this situation and acted.
Awake-in Darlo above sums it all up.david l. reed

darloboss wrote:
arriva drivers really are very poorly trained and also very ignorant

And yet you come out with an ignorant comment.

truth hurt ?

[quote][p][bold]Blankface[/bold] wrote:
[quote][p][bold]darloboss[/bold] wrote:
arriva drivers really are very poorly trained and also very ignorant[/p][/quote]And yet you come out with an ignorant comment.[/p][/quote]truth hurt ?darloboss

david l. reed wrote:
Really I would not blame the drivers they have a lot on their plate, the only real answer is a bus station as most of the towns in the North East have.
Darlington is totally lacking in this facility and it's about time that both Darlington Council and Arriva accepted this situation and acted.
Awake-in Darlo above sums it all up.

I wouldn't call driving and not crashing as a lot to ask of any bus driver, and as for a bus station, if it was located somewhere near Feathams and no buses stopped in the town and only at the bus station there would soon be complaints of having to walk back into town to shop and back to the station to catch a bus, you know what the people of Darlington are like they almost all need to be spoon fed....

[quote][p][bold]david l. reed[/bold] wrote:
Really I would not blame the drivers they have a lot on their plate, the only real answer is a bus station as most of the towns in the North East have.
Darlington is totally lacking in this facility and it's about time that both Darlington Council and Arriva accepted this situation and acted.
Awake-in Darlo above sums it all up.[/p][/quote]I wouldn't call driving and not crashing as a lot to ask of any bus driver, and as for a bus station, if it was located somewhere near Feathams and no buses stopped in the town and only at the bus station there would soon be complaints of having to walk back into town to shop and back to the station to catch a bus, you know what the people of Darlington are like they almost all need to be spoon fed....Cypress

darloboss wrote:
arriva drivers really are very poorly trained and also very ignorant

And yet you come out with an ignorant comment.

truth hurt ?

Since when has an ignorant comment been the truth?

[quote][p][bold]darloboss[/bold] wrote:
[quote][p][bold]Blankface[/bold] wrote:
[quote][p][bold]darloboss[/bold] wrote:
arriva drivers really are very poorly trained and also very ignorant[/p][/quote]And yet you come out with an ignorant comment.[/p][/quote]truth hurt ?[/p][/quote]Since when has an ignorant comment been the truth?Blankface

We had a bus station in Darlington and nobody used it. People complained that the elderly had to walk to far to catch a bus the same as down by the side of wilkinson a it was too far to walk!!!! Yes I understand that there is slot of buses use the centre of town and it is very congested but it needs better planning not a waste of money building another bus station for it not to be used!!!!

We had a bus station in Darlington and nobody used it. People complained that the elderly had to walk to far to catch a bus the same as down by the side of wilkinson a it was too far to walk!!!! Yes I understand that there is slot of buses use the centre of town and it is very congested but it needs better planning not a waste of money building another bus station for it not to be used!!!!Miss 99